Friday, January 11, 2013

Not to worry.Scientists have let us know that the asteroid Apophis (which sounds
suspiciously like the name of the super-villain Apothis from Stargate SG-1) will not be hitting Earth
in twenty years or so.We can get back
to worrying about the economy, the size of the national debt, and the
ever-growing Social Security funding deficit that was recently estimated at $84
trillion.

That being the case, it’s a good thing the Just Third Way
movement is making some progress:

• A meeting to plan for the upcoming Rally at the Fed was
held today.As 2013 is the 150th
anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 100th
anniversary of the Federal Reserve Act, these will be a special focus of the
event.

• Guy S. in Iowa, who recently sent CESJ a copy of Fulton
Sheen’s book, God and Intelligence
(1925), with an introduction by G. K. Chesterton, has been surfacing a great
deal of material from Bishop Sheen.His
latest “discovery” is a copy of the “Baccalaureate Sermon”
then-Monsignor Sheen gave at the 97th Annual Commencement Exercises
at the University of Notre Dame du Lac on June 1, 1941.The subject of the sermon was that the
decline of patriotism in America is directly linked to a decline in religion.

• Mark G. editor of Truth
Be Told, the newsletter of the Dominican Western Province, is sending CESJ
a rare copy of Bishop Sheen’s book, Whence
Come Wars (1940).Much of Bishop
Sheen’s thought in politics and philosophy appears to be very consistent with
the principles of the Just Third Way.

• A short article on harmony and economic justice was
submitted to Dr. Leo Semashko, president of the Global Harmony Association
headquartered in St. Petersburg, Russia.

• Sales of In Defenseof Human Dignity
(2008) have quadrupled in January from the previous month, suggesting that
people are beginning to investigate alternatives to the current system more
seriously.The majority of the copies
seem to have been “special ordered” from local bookstores instead of being
purchased through Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

• Elli St. George Godfrey, a business coach in Boston, has
expressed interest in the Just Third Way and its application to specific
business situations.Her show is
#Kaizenbiz, and can be accessed on Tweetchat.Her website is http://kaizenbiz.com/, and she may be interviewing Norman
Kurland on Tweetchat in the near future.

• As of this morning, we have had
visitors from 49 different countries and 51 states and provinces in the United
States and Canada to this blog over the past two months. Most visitors are from
the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, and Ireland. People in
Mexico, Malta, Nepal, Qatar, and the United States spent the most average time
on the blog. The most popular postings this past week were “Thomas Hobbes on
Private Property,” “Aristotle on Private Property,” “Islamic Banking,” “Is
Choice Unconstitutional?,” and “News from the Network, Vol. 6, No. 1.”

Those are the happenings for this week, at least that we
know about.If you have an
accomplishment that you think should be listed, send us a note about it at
mgreaney [at] cesj [dot] org, and we’ll see that it gets into the next
“issue.”If you have a short (250-400
word) comment on a specific posting, please enter your comments in the blog —
do not send them to us to post for you.All comments are moderated anyway, so we’ll see it before it goes up.